Hitchhiker's Guide (never saw the movie)For Love of the Game (much better than the movie)Killer Angels (much better than the movie (Gettysburg))Lost Moon (the movie (Apollo 13) was also very good)Simple Justice (there's no way they could make a movie out of this)

Simple Justice has had the biggest actual impact on my life. It is the story of Brown v. Board of Education and picks it up during the Civil War. The heroes are the lawyers of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who worked for decades for equal rights for blacks. It's a great book for the history and for the law. It really helped solidify my thoughts on race relations and helped me start to understand just how horrible things were in my own Virginia.

It also physically has a big impact. That's one heavy book.

Davros, Attorney and Pieces of LawKeeping up appearances is a very important activity in religion; in fact, maintaining tattered illusions is its main activity. - Richard Wade, on Friendlyatheist.comWe make an idol of our fear and call it God. -Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal

Scott the Pirate wrote:I'll have to get that for the gf....She's off to law school soon.

I read it when I was getting ready to start law school.

Davros, Attorney and Pieces of LawKeeping up appearances is a very important activity in religion; in fact, maintaining tattered illusions is its main activity. - Richard Wade, on Friendlyatheist.comWe make an idol of our fear and call it God. -Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal

She has 3 credits left. The system at UMD is set up so that "Senior Seminar" is only offered only once every other year, so she's taking that in the fall. Stupid. "Graduated" summa-cum-laude (she got departmental honors as well) with a 3.979/4.0 gpa. I'm still amazed at how such a smart person can stick to her guns (in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary) after claiming that the statement "In general men are taller than women" is false....

(No need to go 'splainin' Roy)

Roy Hunter wrote:Then, when you've got to know them a bit and their defences are down, you go all Scott the Pirate on them...

You realise I now have the disco version of the Star Wars theme stuck in my head?

Has anyone seen the Earworms thread...?

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."I linked the number of MPs to the number of votes. If you'd done a real Science degree you'd understand sticking to the point." ~ daftbeaker.